The Essential Phone was a great deal during Prime Day last month. This deal isn’t quite as good, but if you’re interested in picking an Essential Phone up for just $399.99, the company will bundle up a pair of its Earphones HD, a 360 Camera, and a protective camera case for free.
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Alexa Now tells you the hours and Phone Numbers of Local Businesses
Depending on your region, you can now ask your Amazon Echo for information about the closest business and get the hours, thanks to Amazon’s recent partnership with Yext, a company that’s supplying the tech giant with business data aggregated from Google and Facebook, as well as Apple’s Siri assistant, according to Bloomberg. Since 2015, Amazon has offered similar information through Yelp, and the information pulled from the review site is what allowed people to use their Amazon speakers to, for example, find the most popular restaurants in their area. The data from Yext is pulled directly from businesses that partner with the platform, like T-Mobile, and Rite Aid, who work with Yext to keep their data up to date.
App That Calls Sighted Volunteers Wins a Technology Award
Be My Eyes, a Danish company that allows some 87,000 people who have downloaded the free app to request assistance in situations where vision is needed from 1.5 million volunteers, won the accessibility prize at the Tech4Good awards.
Amazon’s Echo Show Makes Alexa More accessible to the Deaf and Speech-Impaired
Amazon has new features for deaf and speech-impaired users. It’s called “Tap to Alexa,” and it lets owners of the Echo Show touchscreen smart speaker tap on the screen to access customizable shortcuts to common Alexa tricks, including weather, news headlines, timers and more. Users can rearrange those shortcuts or exchange them for other shortcuts. There’s also a new keyboard icon that you can select, and you’ll be able to type out a specific Alexa command with no need to talk.
Google Assistant Now Makes Video Calls for You
As reported by Android Police, you can now ask Google Assistant to initiate a video call for you with someone in your contact list, and it will do so by automatically launching Duo. If you don’t have Duo installed, Android Police notes that Assistant will use Hangouts instead.
You Can Now Ask Alexa to Adjust the Treble, Mid-Range or Bass
Starting this week, Echo users will be able to adjust the treble, mid-range or bass on their smart speaker by opening the Alexa app, or by simply asking Alexa via voice commands.
How to Use the Blue Light Filter on Your Phone
HOW TO USE NIGHT SHIFT ON YOUR IPHONE
Released in iOS 9.3, the Night Shift feature in iOS allows you to filter out blue light and adjust the warmth of the colors in your display. To turn it on go to:
Sign-Language Through Camera Lets Alexa Respond to Gestures
Developer Abhishek Singh, the creator of an app that allows Amazon Alexa to respond to sign language uses a camera-based system to identify gestures and interpret them as text and speech.
How to Reset Your Dropbox Password
As long as you remember your password, you can sign in to dropbox.com and change your password through your account settings.
If you can’t sign in to your Dropbox account, a quick way to reset your password is to visit the Forgot password page. You can also try one of the methods below.
Google Assistant Can Now Map Out Your Day
Google has announced that it will introduce a “visual snapshot” feature in Assistant to summarize what’s happening in your day.
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